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Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 585-4594/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html =3D> REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html =3D> our theatre resource pag= e http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young =3D> my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:07 +0000 From: Jesse Hurlbut <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MLA Sessions of interest (long message) If you're planning on attending the conference of the Modern Language Association, here is a list of the sessions that have something to do with Medieval and Renaissance Drama: MLA1998, San Francisco Session 11 (MRDS) Early Drama and Visual Culture Sunday, 27 Dec. 3:30-4:45 p.m. Union Square 17 and 18 San Francisco Hilton "Spectator as Actor in the Movable Playword of Parish Drama in the West of England," James David Stokes Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point "Playing the Past to Secure the Future in English Provincial Towns," Lloyd Edward Kermode, Rice Univ. "Taming the Stranger: Visual Construction of the Exotic," Milla C. Riggio, Trinity Coll., CT Session 481 (MRDS) Performing Female: Embodiment and Personification in the Medieval Theater Tuesday, 29 Dec. 8:30-9:45 a.m. Union Square 14, San Francisco Hilton "Joseph as Mother, Jutta as Pope: Gender and Transgression in Medieval German Drama," Stephen K. Wright, Catholic Univ. of America "The Tears of the Virgin: The Transgendered Performance of Grief and Mourning," Leslie Abend Callahan, Univ. of Pennsylvania "Queer Frames for the Female Personificational Body in Middle English Drama," James John Paxson, Univ. of Florida OTHER SESSIONS OF INTEREST: Session 105 Marlowe and Early Modern Politics Sunday, 27 Dec. 7:00-8:15 p.m. Union Square 12, San Francisco Hilton "Space, Measurement, and Custom in Tamburlaine the Great, Part I," Garrett A. Sullivan, Penn State Univ., University Park "Tampering with the Records: Engendering the Political Community and Marlowe's Appropriation of the Past in Edward II," Georgia E. Brown, Cambridge Univ. "`Forsake Thy King, and Do but Join with Me': Marlowe and Treason," Karen Cunningham, Florida State Univ. Session 298 Shakespeare:Performance/Perfor-mativity Monday, 28 Dec. 1:45-3:00 p.m. Franciscan Room, San Francisco Hilton "Performance/History: Queen Isabel in Henry V," Diana Elizabeth Henderson, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. "Performing the Globe," W.B. Worthen, Univ. of California, Davis "Media Reconfigurations, Popular Culture, and Performance," Barbara S. Freedman, Tufts Univ. Session 425 Staging Pedagogy: Education and Performance in Renaissance England Monday, 28 Dec. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Union Square 23 and 2,4San Francisco Hilton "Wit and Science and the Dramaturgy of Learning," Kent Cartwright, Univ. of Maryland, College Park "Alter Boys: Pedagogy and Theatricality at Saint Paul's," Eric S. Wilson, Harvard Univ. "Coming of Age on Stage: The Seventeenth-Century Pedagogical Masque," Kate D. Levin, City Coll., City Univ. of New York Respondent: Rebecca Bushnell, Univ. of Pennsylvania Session 426 The Drama of the Nondramatic Monday, 28 Dec. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Parlor 9, Continental Ballroom, San Francisco Hilton "The Singing Bull: Legal Authority, Liturgical Performance, and Middle English Lyrics," Bruce Wood Holsinger, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder "Footprints in the Invisible Actor: Tracing the Jongleur Theater in Premodern Literary Texts," Bruce R. Burningham, Florida Atlantic Univ. "Theatropaideia: Playing Around in the Spectacle of the World," William Newton West, Univ. of California, Berkeley Respondent: Jody Enders, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Session 512 Medievalists at the Movies Tuesday, 29 Dec. 10:15-11:30 a.m. Union Square 23, San Francisco Hilton "Flesh and Roses: Manuscripts in Movies," Elizabeth J. Bryan, Brown Univ. "Ladyhawke and the Future of the Middle Ages," Geraldine G.N. Heng, Univ. of Texas, Austin "Robin Hood as (Inter)National Allegory," Sharon A. Kinoshita, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz "Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philogy," Seth Lerer, Stanford Univ. Session 527 Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Anxiety of Influence Tuesday, 29 Dec. 10:15-11:30 a.m. Parlor 3, Continental Ballroom San Francisco Hilton "Venus and Adonis in the Context of Hero and Leanderand the Elizabethan Verse Epyllium," Maurice Charney, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick "Wanton Pamphlets and Wayward Women in Marlowe and Shakespeare," Dympna Carmel Callaghan, Syracuse Univ. "`For a Tricksy Word, Defy the Matter": The Influence of The Jew of Malta on The Merchant of Venice," Robert Alexander Logan, Univ. of Hartford BSession 554 Playing the Mother: Early Modern Dramas of Maternity Tuesday, 29 Dec. 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m. Union Square 23 and 24 San Francisco Hilton "Nurturing the Young in Sixteenth-Century Germany," Paul Foley Casey, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia "Representations of a Motherly Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Children Companies," Jeanne H. McCarthy, Univ. of Texas, Austin "Mothers as Amazons: Maternity and Masculinity in 1,2, and 3 Henry IV," Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt Univ. Respondent: Leah Sinanoglou Marcus, Vanderbilt Univ. Session 555. Representing the English Reformation Tuesday, 29 Dec. 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m. Continental Ballroom 6 San Francisco Hilton "The King of Souls: The State and the Sacred in Measure for Measure," Debora K. Shuger, Univ. of California, Los Angeles "Jacobean Comedy and the Pedagogy of Reform," Huston Diehl, Univ. of Iowa "`Notable and Speciall Significacion': Reformed Representation in the Book of Common Prayer," Timothy Rosendale Session 653 Women, Death, and Mourning in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Tuesday, 29 Dec. 3:30-4:45 p.m. Union Square 17 and 18 San Francisco Hilton "Inconsolable Grief: Feminine Lamentation in Medieval Drama," Katharine Goodland, Polytechnic Univ. "Anticipation the Piet=E0: The Lament for the Arcadian Prince Pallas in the Roman d'Eneas," Raymond Cormier, Longwood Coll. "A Widow's Grief Illustrated: The Christliche Betrachtungof Magdalena Sibylla, Duchess of W=FCrttemberg," Cecilia M. Pick, Univ. of Texas, Austin Added Session (NOT IN PROGRAM) Performance Texts in their Literary EnvironmentTuesday, 29 December, 1:45-3:00 p.m. Plaza Room A, San Francisco Hilton Presider: Ruth Evans, Cardiff University, Wales, UK ''Legal Documents as Literary Performance," Emily Steiner, Yale Univ. "When the King Harps on a Subject...: Power and Performance in Sir Orfeo," Christine Chism, Rutgers Univ. "Negotiating Poetry: Deschamps Reading Machaut at the Anglo-French Treaty Negotiations of 1375," Joyce Coleman, Univ. of North Dakota